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Re: configure openldap crash warning

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-30T03:18:23Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Why do we continue to link the backend to ldap when we find ldap_r, given that
> we know that it can cause problems for extension libraries using libpq?

Uh ... if we know that, it's news to me.

I think we might've avoided ldap_r for fear of pulling libpthread into
the backend; per recent discussion, it's not clear that avoiding that
is possible anyway.  But you didn't make a case for changing this.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. configure: don't probe for libldap_r if libldap is 2.5 or newer.